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AL OTRO LADO v. WOLF

No. 19-56417.

952 F.3d 999 (2020)

AL OTRO LADO, a California corporation; Abigail Doe; Beatrice Doe; Carolina Doe; Dinora Doe; Ingrid Doe; Jose Doe; Ursula Doe; Victoria Doe; Bianca Doe; Juan Doe; Roberto Doe; Cesar Doe; Maria Doe; Emiliana Doe, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Chad F. WOLF, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Mark A. Morgan, Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Todd C. Owen, Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, United States Customs and Border Protection, in his official capacity, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

FILED March 5, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott G. Stewart (argued), Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Alexander J. Halaska , Trial Attorney; Katherine J. Shinners , Senior Litigation Counsel; Erez Reuveni , Assistant Director; William C. Peachey , Director, District Court Section; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

Ori Lev (argued), Stephen M. Medlock , and Eric Brooks , Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C.; Melissa E. Crow (argued), Southern Povery Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Baher Azmy and Angelo Guisado , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, New York; Matthew H. Marmolejo , Mayer Brown LLP, Los Angeles, California; Sarah Rich and Rebecca Cassler , Southern Poverty Law Center, Decatur, Georgia; Karolina Walters , American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Michael L. Newman , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Susan Slager , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Vilma Palma-Solana , James F. Zahradka II , R. Erandi Zamora-Graziano , and Marissa Malouff , Deputy Attorneys General; Office of the Attorney General, Los Angeles, California; William Tong , Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut; Kathleen Jennings , Attorney General, Wilmington, Delaware; Clare E. Connors , Attorney General, Honolulu, Hawaii; Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, Chicago, Illinois; Aaron M. Frey , Attorney General, Augusta, Maine; Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Mauar Healey , Attorney General, Boston, Massachusetts; Dana Nessel , Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan; Keith Ellison , Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; Aaron D. Ford , Attorney General, Carson City, Nevada; Gurbir S. Grewal , Trenton, New Jersey; Hector Balderas , Attorney General, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Letitia James , Attorney General, New York, New York; Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General, Salem, Oregon; Josh Shapiro , Attorney General, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Peter F. Neronha , Attorney General, Providence, Rhode Island; Thomas J. Donovan Jr. , Attorney General, Montpelier, Vermont; Mark R. Herring , Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia; Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General, Olympia, Washington; Karl A. Racine , Attorney General, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

Susan Baker Manning , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, D.C.; Sabin Willett , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; for Amici Curiae Immigration Law Professors.

Dimitri D. Portnoi , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae Law Professors.

Harrison J. Frahn , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Palo Alto, California, for Amid Curiae Eighteen Organizations Representing Asylum Seekers.

Order by Judge Berzon; Dissent by Judge Bress

ORDER

Plaintiff Al Otro Lado is an organization dedicated to helping individuals seek asylum in the United States. Along with thirteen Individual Plaintiffs (collectively, "Al Otro Lado"), Al Otro Lado originally challenged in this case the government's policy of turning...

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